Plot2Kill 0.02

[Rory McGuire]

On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 09:53:02 +0200, Lars T. Kyllingstad  
<public at kyllingen.nospamnet> wrote:

> On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 03:22:37 +0000, dsimcha wrote:
>
>> == Quote from Lars T. Kyllingstad (public at kyllingen.NOSPAMnet)'s article
>>> > Yea, I tried to use it on *nix today and realized that.  This will
>>> > get fixed soon.
>>> >  In addition to the typo, I forgot that getting a font can return
>>> >  null. I have no
>>> > idea why it works on Windows.  Anyhow, I'll make platform-specific
>>> > default fonts (using core X11 fonts on *nix and properly spelled
>>> > Verdana on Windows) and as a last resort, if the default font doesn't
>>> > exist, I'll make it just not render text instead of crashing the
>>> > program.
>>> So that was why it kept going SEG-V on me!  I tried it out earlier
>>> today, but didn't have time to investigate too much.  It works fine
>>> now, and I have the demo window up and running.  Will definitely use
>>> for serious work tomorrow. ;)
>>> -Lars
>>
>> Fixed.  http://dsource.org/projects/scrapple/changeset/772
>
> Cool, thanks! :)
>
>
>> I fired up my barely-used Linux partition for this.  I knew it would
>> come in handy.  I also kludged around the weird text cutoff bugs that
>> only appear on Linux.  (I don't want to say I fixed it because I didn't
>> address the root cause and I don't know what the root cause is.  My best
>> guess is that on Linux the font measurements are slightly off.)
>>
>> The most serious bug now, IMHO, is that there's no way to save plots to
>> a file from a machine with console-only access, such as a supercomputer
>> that you SSH into.  I don't know how to fix this.  Calling Main.init()
>> on a machine with no windowing system borks everything.  Does anyone
>> have any suggestions on how to fix this?
>
> Even if you SSH into it, you can still run GUI apps remotely using X
> forwarding.  But if you're saying that the machine doesn't have X
> installed at all (do those still exist?), I have no suggestions.
>
> -Lars

You could re-write it to use GD, its just a drawing library.